WAIS Robotics at Games Robots Play

The WAIS Robotics Club participated in the 2015 Games Robots Play at Waltrip High School. This years games required designing and programming robots to play Disc Golf, Marbles, Pipe Ball, Cube It, and a side-challenge of Skateboarding on a mini-halfpipe.

The WAIS Robotics Club received awards for their performance, including for perseverance, the first to score on disc golf, and the trophy for achieving the highest score on disc golf (scoring the only perfect score of the day). WAIS Robotics has participated in Games Robots Play since 2012.

Games Robots Play is a competition hosted and run by Stephanie Witherspoon's Robotics Team at Waltrip High School. All challenges and challenge materials are designed, procured and/or created, and tested by the Waltrip Robotics students.

Teacher of the Year- High School: Andrew Maddocks

Excerpt:  
“I’m a product of Spring Branch IDSD. I attended Housman Elementary, Landrum Middle and Northbrook High School. I had several wonderful and inspirational leaders who...

See the full article on SBISD's Celebrating Excellence in Education

Teacher of the Year- Middle School: Rachel Rose

Excerpt:  
“I love to teach because I want to make history relevant to today’s youth.”
“I give my students the opportunity to succeed both...

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Run of Pi

A group of Wais staff and students participated in the Run of Pi on the UH Main Campus this morning. The Run of Pi is 4 hundredths of a mile longer than your typical 5k, making it 3.14 miles. Schools with the most participants will be awarded grants for their STEM programs.

Learn more about the Run of Pi at their website.

Lottery Results for WAIS 2015/16 Admissions

Admittance to WAIS is based only on two things; residing within Spring Branch, and limitations of our school's capacity. While we aim to provide a rigorous and challenging environment for our students, we don't have a grade requirement on our applications. We understand that a student's current level of success is not always indicative of their level of success here at WAIS. This may be due to a variety of factors within the environment and within the student, including but not limited to learning strategies, curriculum, peers, and level of interest. As a result, we understand a student may show a different level of success from one location to another, as well as from one year to another.

There were over 700 applications for available openings for next school year. This does not include current students documents stating their intent to return. We understand and sympathize that it can be discouraging to be on a long waiting list. If your number was not drawn this year, we hope that you continue to apply and that sooner or later your number will be drawn.

Acceptance and Waiting Lists can be found on our website.

WAIS hosts 4H Share the Fun

The local Houston Share the Fun event with Prairie View A&M's 4H Cooperative Extension was hosted at Westchester Theatre this evening. Share the Fun is akin to a talent show, but has a variety of categories in which students can show their skills- including but not limited to public speaking and literature. Level of performance is acknowledged with ribbons and awards.

WAIS also hosted the Houston Share the Fun event in 2014.